The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, October 08, 1997, Image 1

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Green monster Advance and retreat October 8,1997
Nebraska junior I-Back has dropped 15 pounds Guerrilla warfare marked the Mason-Dixon’s
from last season and has returned to his running return Sunday as Confederate and Union soldiers
form from his freshman season. PAGE 9 clashed at the Chalk’s Bluff Battle. PAGE 7
VOL. 97 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 ^ NO. 32
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“It’s the voice we hear - the voice of hate and discrimination.
We don’t hear the voice of welcome.”
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■ / ' Judith Kriss
Photos by Scott McClurg/DN S
ABOVE: UNL GROUNDS Supervisor Angela Coin scrubs away chalk
writings concerning Coming Out Week Tuesday afternoon. * B
RIGHT: STUDENTS ENCOUNTER several chalk writings left over on B
, campus. This writing was left near 14th and U streets.
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By Brad Davis
Assignment Reporter
A radio talk show on Monday night inadvertently caused mes
sages written on campus sidewalks by a UNL gay rights group to be
vandalized.
The original messages, which were meant to promote Coming
Out Week and homosexual issues, were written in chalk on side
walks of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus by the
Someone You Know group.
On Monday’s edition of the “Three Men and a German” talk
show on UNL’s KRNU radio station, a student called in and said he
did not like the promotion of gay rights written on the sidewalks,
according to Klaus Marre, a host of the program.
Rick Alloway, general manager of KRNU, said talk show host
Matt Boyd encouraged the student to voice his own opinion if he
did not approve of the messages written on campus sidewalks.
“We brought some chalk for people to use,” Marre said. “Three
people came to get chalk, but we told them not to be derogatory.”
Marre said the talk show hosts were unaware that writing on
campus sidewalks requires a special permit, which the Someone
You Know group had received.
Please see SIDEWALK on 3
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Tenure
proposal
debated
■ The Academic Senate voted to
accept the recently revised
post-tenure review plan.
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By Sarah Baker
Assignment Reporter
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Academic Senate discussed its options concern
ing the newly revised post-tenure review propos
al at Tuesday’s meeting.
President Jim Ford said the document -
which was composed by the post-tenure review
committee - came to the senate with an agree
ment. -
or down vote on this document without afy
amendments,” Ford said. “If we decide iris Unac
ceptable, we can then vote it down and make
more recommendations for change.”
The senate voted to accept die newly revised
proposal as a substitution proposal for the one
that was tabled last month. The senators wanted to
be able to take the proposal to their departments
and have a chance to discuss it.
“This is something the president of the uni
versity has mandated for us,” said Robert Shirer, /
Please see TENURE on 6 '
Athletes teach
importance
of academics
By Josh Funk
Assignment Reporter
KEARNEY - The lights went down and
1,500 elementary school pupils went wild as
the 1997 Tour of Excellence got under way in
Kearney on Tuesday.
The Tour of Excellence brings coaches and
athletes from the University of Nebraska
Lincoln and the University of Nebraska at
Kearney to speak to children hi the fourth
through eighth grades about the importance of
academics and the keys to success.
More than 3,000 central Nebraska children
attended presentations at the UNK Health and
Sports Center that included speakers and
demonstrations of weightlifting and basketball.
Lil’ Red and cheerleaders from both schools
kept the children excited.
“I thought it was cool,” fifth-grader Chase \
Freeman from Overton said. “I learned that I
have to have strength in my life.”
The main theme of the speeches was that
hard work and dedication pay off.
“You have to believe that there is nothing
Please see TOUR on 3
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